Gopher Women’s Hockey: Best Ever

The only teams winning championships in Minnesota these days are women. The Lynx won the WNBA title in 2011 and made the finals in 2012. Meanwhile, the Gopher women’s hockey team just capped a perfect 41-0 season with their second straight NCAA title.

“No other team has done this, so we’re a better team than anyone else has been throughout the years,” Raty said after the championship final.

Well, if they won’t say it, I will: This is the best women’s hockey team ever, and has to be counted as one of the greatest college athletic teams in any sport. This team averaged more than five goals a game while giving up fewer than one. It won by three or more goals 80 percent of the time. And only three times did an opponent even finish a game within one goal of them.